Drinking-fountain.



N. BAZINET.

DRI NKING FOUNTAIN.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-8, I911- 1,227,366. Patented, May 22, 1917.

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NAZAIRE BAZINET, OF WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA.

DRINKING-FOUNTAIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 22, 1917.

Application filed January 8, 1917. Serial No. 141,321.

water to a drinking pan.

A further object of the invention is to construct this device in a simple and efficient manner and so that it can be manufactured at small cost and readily assembled.

With the above objects in view the invention consists essentially in a drinking pan, a storage tank mounted in the pan, a filling tube, a combination divided air and water pipe, a valve associated with the pipe and an air tube connected with the pipe,

the parts being arranged and constructed as hereinafter more particularly described and later pointed out in the appended claim. reference being had to the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 represents a side view of the complete appliance.

Fig. 2 represents a vertical sectional view centrally through the same.

Fig. 3 represents a perspective view of the air pipe, parts being broken away to expose interior construction.

In the drawing like characters of, refer ence indicate corresponding parts in each 9 figure.

1 represents a drinking pan in which I have located a cylindrical tank 2, the tank having a closed top 3 and having the bottom thereof open and sealed to the base of the g pan in any suitable manner as indicated at 4.

5 represents a filling tube passing centrally through the tank and having the base thereof soldered or otherwise secured to the bottom of the pan as indicated at 4 and the upper end thereof screw threaded and fitted with a nut 7 and a washer 8, the nut being screwed down against the top of the tank.

9 represents a short nipple screw threading into the upper end of the tube and 10 represents a removable funnel attached to the nipple.

The lower end of the filling tube is provided with a plurality of entry openings 11. 12 represents a combined air and water pipe having one end eXteriorly screw threaded as shown at 13 and the other end beveled to provide a valve seat 14 and supplied interiorly with a cross partition 15 which has the forward end terminating in a down turned deflecting lip 16 and the rear end terminating in an end wall 17 The pipe is inserted through the wall of the tank and is secured thereto by means of inside and outside jam nuts 18 and 19.

20 represents a valve adapted to seat on. the cone shaped end of the pipe and'21 is a valve rod having the forward end passing slidably through the lip and the rear end slidably carried by a lug 22 formed as an extension of the wall 17. The outer extremity of the valve rod is supplied with a knob 23.

From the above it will be obvious that the pipe 12 is provided with two passages, an upper air passage 24 and a lower water passage 25, these being located at opposite sides of the partition.

26 represents an air tube carried by the pipe and having the lower end thereof communicating with the air passage and the upper end thereof terminating just below the top of the tank.

The fountain is used in the following way To fill, one pulls the knob out to seat the valve and then proceeds to pour water into the tank through the funnel, the water passing down the tube 5 and entering the tank through the openings 11.

As the water enters the air escapes from the tank down the tube 26 and out the passage 24.

To start the fountain working one then pushes the knob in to unseat the valve. As soon as this occurs the water flows through the passage 25, into the pan and continues flowing until it has risen in the pan sufliciently high to cut off the air at the outer end of the air passage. This height is indicated by the dotted line aa Fig. 2.

In this connection it will be readily understood that once the atmospheric air pressure is cut off the water will no longer flow through the passage 25.

As the animals drink from time to time they will lower the level of the water and this immediately sets the fountain in action as the instant the level of the water is lowered to admit air to the interior of the tank through the passage 24; and tube 2-6 the Water immediately resumes flowing into the pan' from the tank through the passage 25.

The lip While providing a support for one end of the vali'e rod serves also the purpose of deflecting the Water downwardly' into the pan as it flows through the passage 25. In this Way splashing over the edge of the pan is prevented.

W'hat I claim as my invention is The combination with a drinking pan, a closed liquid storage tank mounted in the pan and a filling tube passing through the tank and opening to the interior thereof at the bottom, of a combined air and Water pipe located in the side of the tank and below the top level of the pan and having :1

cross partition therein providing a top air passage and a lower water passage, an air tube communicating with the air passage and terminating adjacent the top of the storage tank, a valve seated on the inner end of the combined air and water pipe, a lug located on the lower side of the partition, a down turned lip provided at the forward end of the partition and a valve rod having the inner end secured to the valve, the body portion thereof slidably mounted in the lip and lug and the outer end thereof terminating in a knob projecting into the pan.

Signed at Vinnipeg, this 11 day of December, 1916.

NAZAIRE BL'XZINET. In the presence of- Gr. S. ROXBAUGH, ROLAND FOSTER.

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